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Classical 101A new recording of Mexican piano concertos and solo piano works, Conciertos Rom谩nticos, exemplifies the rich blend of late-romantic European classical and traditional Mexican musical idioms from before the Mexican Revolution.
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Classical 101How does a child navigate the hardships and heartaches of a world run by adults? Columbus composer Rocco Di Pietro grapples with this and other questions about the dark side of childhood in his piano work The Children鈥檚 Journey. Acclaimed pianist and contemporary music specialist Kathleen Supov茅 will perform the world premiere of The Children鈥檚 Journey in Columbus on Nov. 15.
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Classical 101鈥淔or me, making music felt inadequate.鈥漈hat鈥檚 what noted pianist Simone Dinnerstein said about the days she spent in lockdown last spring, as the鈥
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Classical 101He composed music for a single instrument鈥搕he piano鈥揳t a time when other composers were writing works for monster concerts. His personal life was quiet,鈥
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Classical 101鈥淚t was dark, unsettling. And it, in a way, kind of reflected my own family鈥檚 dark history.鈥漈hat鈥檚 how the music of Austrian-born Holocaust survivor Karol鈥
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Classical 101There was a time when a woman composer was a relatively rare phenomenon. There was also a time when music critics drew a clear line between "masculine"鈥
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Classical 101鈥淚 think that he鈥檚 kind of like the grandfather of it all.鈥漈hat鈥檚 what pianist Simone Dinnerstein says about Bach, a composer for whose music she has a鈥
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Classical 101As the saying goes, laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and you cry alone.And 鈥 hello? 鈥 who wants to cry alone?That鈥檚 why The American Sound this鈥
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Classical 101A couple of years ago, The New Yorker published a cartoon by Joe Dator that truly catches the spirit of our times.In the single panel, a pregnant woman鈥
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Classical 101Behind every great piano and every great pianist is a technician on whom everything depends. For most of the last half century in Columbus, that piano鈥